PublishedErschienen: 2012-06-21. Modernization has been one of the most intensely negotiated concepts of the theoretical and historical social sciences over the last fifty years. Conceptions of the term have changed considerably during the course of this discussion.
An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun. Adjectives are used to describe a person, object, place or event. In many instances, an adjective provides a specific meaning to the word it is describing.
Modifiers are, quite simply, any word or group of words that modifies (describes or elaborates upon) another element in a sentence. Modifiers can either be adjectives, which modify nouns (or sometimes pronouns), or adverbs, which modify pretty much everything else (usually verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs).